La rédemption
La Rédemption (The Redemption) is an oratorio in three parts by Charles Gounod arranged for the first time in 1882.
Composition
La Rédemption is based on much earlier sketches, which were finished only after his publisher, Novello, arranged for its performances at the
Theme
La Rédemption was a return to Christian-themed sacred music which Charles Gounod had adhered to since his time in Rome, or in Berlin when he wrote an oratoria on the subject of Judith in 1842, or during his time as organist for the Chapel of the Paris Foreign Missions Society.
In three parts, it is a meditation on the
Production
The 1884 Paris premiere featured Jean-Baptiste Faure.[3] Gounod considered this oratorio, and its sequel Mors et vita (1885) as his greatest achievements.[4]
An orchestration of the oratorio composed by
Reception
Though the reception of La Redemption was contrasted, artists such a pianist
Recordings
- " La Pentecôte" - extract on Airs sacrés français Françoise Pollet, orchestre national d'Île-de-France Jacques Mercier 1997
- "From thy love as a Father" - on Gounod Sacred Choral Works. Joanna Burton
References
- ^ The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Music Michael Kennedy, Joyce Bourne - 2004 p297 0198608845 oratorios: La Rédemption (1868–81); Mors et Vita (1885). cantatas: Marie Stuart (1837); Gallia (1871). church music: Messe a tre (1841); ...
- Missions étrangères de Paris: 356. 1928 – via Bibliothèque nationale de France.
- ^ Karen Henson Opera Acts: Singers and Performance in the Late Nineteenth Century- 2015 1107004268 "He appeared in the French premieres of Gounod's La Rédemption (in 1884) and Mors et vita (in 1886).
- ^ Norman Demuth -César Franck 1949 p202 "The oratorios of Franck have their seamy parallels with those of Charles Gounod. La Redemption and Mors et Vita were considered by their composer as being his greatest achievements, his offering upon the Altar of the Christian Church."
- JSTOR 3356176.
- ^ Sparks, Jared; Everett, Edward; Lowell, James Russell; Lodge, Henry Cabot (1889). The North American Review. O. Everett. p. 754.
- ^ Liszt, Franz (1894). From Rome to the end. H. Grevel.
- ^ Burke, Edmund (1884). The Annual Register. Rivingtons. p. 101.